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Maytag Corporation

Headquarters of the Maytag Corporation, Newton, Iowa

Maytag Corporation (NYSE: MYG), is a $4.7 billion home and commercial appliance company, headquartered in Newton, Iowa. With approximately 18,000 employees worldwide, it makes and sells home and commercial appliances. The chairman and CEO of Maytag Corporation, Ralph F. Hake, joined Maytag in 2001.

History

Founded in 1893, by F.L. Maytag and originally known as the Parsons Band-Cutter & Self Feeder Company, which manufactured threshing machines and other farm implements. Soon after, the firm officially became known as "Maytag Company." Maytag Corporate in Newton, Iowa, is responsible for divisional administration for sales, marketing, human resources, logistics, finance, legal, information technology, manufacturing and engineering, and customer service.

Chronology

Brands

  • Admiral
  • Amana (appliances)
  • Dixie-Narco
  • Hoover vacuums
  • Jade (appliances)
  • Jenn-Air
  • Magic Chef

Products

In major appliances, Maytag is among the top three companies in the North American market, offering a full line of washers, dryers, dishwashers, refrigerators, and ranges under the brand names Maytag®, Hoover®, Jenn-Air®, Amana®, Dixie-Narco®, and Jade®.

Maytag sells multiple small appliances including a cordless iron under the Maytag® brand, a mixer and blender under the Jenn-Air®, as well as the popular Maytag® Skybox® and Rookie® home vending products.

In floor care, Maytag owns the Hoover® brand, the market leader in North America and the floor care brand with the highest consumer recognition and buying preference.

In commercial products, Maytag owns Dixie-Narco® brand, a leader in refrigerated soft drink and specialty vending machines as well as Jade® cooking products and Amana® commercial cooking products.

Maytag's presence in markets around the world includes sales operations in Australia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. The corporation's export sales and marketing, licensing of brands, and international joint ventures are coordinated by Maytag International in Schaumburg, Illinois.

Maytag International

In 1988, DOMICOR was established as Maytag Corporation's international division and in 1992 became Maytag International, Inc. which now encompasses all of Maytag's worldwide ventures including Maytag Australia, Maytag Canada, Maytag Comercial (Mexico), and Maytag U.K.

Maytag International, based in Schaumburg, Illinois, handles the sales, licensing and business ventures of corporate appliances and floorcare brands in overseas markets as well as the administrative support for the international sales organization. This network extends to more than 70 countries worldwide.

Maytag International is responsible for export sales and licensing of the corporation's appliances and floor care brands and joint ventures in overseas markets. This network extends to more than 90 countries worldwide. The main office is located in Chicago with major subsidiary offices in Burlington, Ontario (Canada), Monterrey (Mexico), Sydney (Australia), and London (England) and region sales offices in Beirut (Lebanon), London (England), and Guaynabo (Puerto Rico).

Manufacturing plants

Maytag has fourteen (14) manufacturing plants throughout the United States and Mexico. These include:

  • laundry manufacturing plants in Newton, IA, Herrin, IL, Juarez, MX, and Searcy, AR
  • refrigeration manufacturing plants in Amana, IA and Reynosa, MX
  • cooking manufacturing plant in Cleveland, TN
  • dishwashing manufacturing plant in Jackson, TN
  • vending manufacturing plant in Williston, SC
  • floor care manufacturing plants in North Canton, OH, El Paso, TX and Juarez, MX.
  • subassembly manufacturing plant in Reynosa, MX

Ol' Lonely

Gordon Jump as the Maytag repairman

Ol' Lonely, or "the lonely repairman", is a character in Maytag advertisements. He was initially played by Jesse White. Ol' Lonely is representative of the professed dependability of Maytag products. Maytag advertisements stated “Ol’ Lonely’s predicament is testimony to the durability and reliability of Maytag appliances. Now if only he had something to do with his days.”

In 1986, the repairman was joined by Newton, a basset hound named for Maytag’s headquarters in Newton, Iowa.

In 1989, character actor Gordon Jump first appeared as Ol’ Lonely in the advertisement “Biker.” In total, Jump appeared in more than 77 Maytag commercials and print advertisements. He made appearances at events for employees and customers and also was actively involved in several philanthropic and charitable causes.

Actor Hardy Rawls was hired to play Ol’ Lonely after Jump's retirement in 2003. Gordon Jump died two months later on September 22, 2003.[1]

In French-speaking Quebec, Ol' Lonely is played by Paul Berval.

For a period of time Maytag gave Ol' Lonely a sidekick character known as the 'Maytag Apprentice', played by actor Mark Devine. However in 2005 Maytag cancelled his contract.


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However in 2005 Maytag cancelled his contract. In that country many banking reforms were subsequently enacted during the New Deal, including the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to guarantee private bank deposits. For a period of time Maytag gave Ol' Lonely a sidekick character known as the 'Maytag Apprentice', played by actor Mark Devine. Such bank failures were a major cause of the tremendous contraction in the money supply that occurred during the Great Depression, particularly in the United States. In French-speaking Quebec, Ol' Lonely is played by Paul Berval. In extreme forms, a bank run or panic may drive a bank into insolvency and, if uninsured, the savings of all its depositors are lost. Gordon Jump died two months later on September 22, 2003.[1]. Even if a bank is short of reserves it can borrow the reserves from another bank at the discount rate.

Actor Hardy Rawls was hired to play Ol’ Lonely after Jump's retirement in 2003. At the end of the day the bankers go have a beer and see who needs to borrow from whom:) On a good day very little borrowing needs to be done because a bank gets as much in new deposits as it does in paid out funds. He made appearances at events for employees and customers and also was actively involved in several philanthropic and charitable causes. A check written on bank A gets deposited in Bank B and a check written on bank B gets deposited in Bank C and a check on bank C gets deposited in bank A. In 1989, character actor Gordon Jump first appeared as Ol’ Lonely in the advertisement “Biker.” In total, Jump appeared in more than 77 Maytag commercials and print advertisements. It must be recalled that the federal reserve banking system is mostly a closed system. In 1986, the repairman was joined by Newton, a basset hound named for Maytag’s headquarters in Newton, Iowa. The bank may use this loan to manage its liabilities (its deposit liabilities created by loans).

Now if only he had something to do with his days.”. Bank savings are actually a kind of loans — savers loan their money to a bank at a low interest rate or merely in exchange for the benefit of convenience or its security (accepting that they lose a small amount of value to inflation). Maytag advertisements stated “Ol’ Lonely’s predicament is testimony to the durability and reliability of Maytag appliances. Money can be destroyed if savers withdraw funds from a bank, in which case that money can no longer be used for lending. Ol' Lonely is representative of the professed dependability of Maytag products. The effects on the money supply will be controlled, again, by the level of bond purchase or redemption or the level of T-Bill sales or purchases by the Treasury. He was initially played by Jesse White. In this instance it would seem that the taxpayers and/or money holders (savers) will pay the debt.

Ol' Lonely, or "the lonely repairman", is a character in Maytag advertisements. In cases where the default is huge such as loans to foreign governments Fed intervention has, in the past, rescued the banks. These include:. The group of good borrowers pay the loan instead of the original borrower. Maytag has fourteen (14) manufacturing plants throughout the United States and Mexico. A very large part of the "interest" paid on bank loans is actually a finance charge employed to cover bad loans. The main office is located in Chicago with major subsidiary offices in Burlington, Ontario (Canada), Monterrey (Mexico), Sydney (Australia), and London (England) and region sales offices in Beirut (Lebanon), London (England), and Guaynabo (Puerto Rico). If a bank loan is defaulted upon then the "interest" paid by other borrowers will be employed to cover the default.

This network extends to more than 90 countries worldwide. The money value of the contract or bond is destroyed — taken out of circulation. Maytag International is responsible for export sales and licensing of the corporation's appliances and floor care brands and joint ventures in overseas markets. Another way money can be destroyed is when any bank loan is paid off or any government bond or T-Bill is purchased by the private sector. This network extends to more than 70 countries worldwide. But, it should be remembered that legal tender usually constitutes less than 4% of the broad money supply. Maytag International, based in Schaumburg, Illinois, handles the sales, licensing and business ventures of corporate appliances and floorcare brands in overseas markets as well as the administrative support for the international sales organization. Perhaps the most obvious way money can be destroyed is if paper bills are burned or taken out of circulation by the central bank.

which now encompasses all of Maytag's worldwide ventures including Maytag Australia, Maytag Canada, Maytag Comercial (Mexico), and Maytag U.K. The Fed could purchase lolly pops if that would accomplish the purpose of expansion better than a purchase of Bonds. In 1988, DOMICOR was established as Maytag Corporation's international division and in 1992 became Maytag International, Inc. No matter who sells the bonds the money will end up in the banking system as M0. The corporation's export sales and marketing, licensing of brands, and international joint ventures are coordinated by Maytag International in Schaumburg, Illinois. If additional money is needed in the banking system to allow more loans the Federal Reserve will create money by purchasing Bonds or T-bills with money created from the other. Maytag's presence in markets around the world includes sales operations in Australia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. For most intents and purposes the aggregate of M0 multiplied by the reserve requirement will be an indicator of (but this is somewhat greater than) the aggregate of loans.

In commercial products, Maytag owns Dixie-Narco® brand, a leader in refrigerated soft drink and specialty vending machines as well as Jade® cooking products and Amana® commercial cooking products. Banks are limited in the amount of loans they can grant and thus in the amount of bank money (credit) they can create by both the net assets of the bank and by reserve requirements (M0). In floor care, Maytag owns the Hoover® brand, the market leader in North America and the floor care brand with the highest consumer recognition and buying preference. The money created in the bank loan process is bank money and these two forms of money trade at par one with the other. Maytag sells multiple small appliances including a cordless iron under the Maytag® brand, a mixer and blender under the Jenn-Air®, as well as the popular Maytag® Skybox® and Rookie® home vending products. "High powered" money (M0) is created when the elected government spends money into the economy. In major appliances, Maytag is among the top three companies in the North American market, offering a full line of washers, dryers, dishwashers, refrigerators, and ranges under the brand names Maytag®, Hoover®, Jenn-Air®, Amana®, Dixie-Narco®, and Jade®. However, the creation of dollar-denominated debt (or any generic obligation) only creates money when a bank (as opposed to a credit card company) is granting the debt.

Soon after, the firm officially became known as "Maytag Company." Maytag Corporate in Newton, Iowa, is responsible for divisional administration for sales, marketing, human resources, logistics, finance, legal, information technology, manufacturing and engineering, and customer service. Thus, all debt denominated in dollars -- mortgages, money markets, credit card debt, travelers cheques -- is money. Maytag and originally known as the Parsons Band-Cutter & Self Feeder Company, which manufactured threshing machines and other farm implements. With the rise of modern industrial capitalism it has gone through several phases including but not limited to:. Founded in 1893, by F.L. Later it consisted of paper notes, now issued by all modern governments. . Historically money was a metal (gold, silver, etc,) or other object that was difficult to duplicate, but easy to transport and divide.

Hake, joined Maytag in 2001. In the United States, the Federal Reserve is responsible for controlling the money supply (monetary policy). The chairman and CEO of Maytag Corporation, Ralph F. M0 is also money that can satisfy private banks' reserve requirements. With approximately 18,000 employees worldwide, it makes and sells home and commercial appliances. The categories grow in size with M3 representing all forms of money (including credit) and M0 being just base money (coins, bills, and central bank deposits). Maytag Corporation (NYSE: MYG), is a $4.7 billion home and commercial appliance company, headquartered in Newton, Iowa. The supply is usually considered as four escalating categories M0, M1, M2 and M3.

subassembly manufacturing plant in Reynosa, MX. The money supply is the amount of money available within a specific economy available for purchasing goods or services. floor care manufacturing plants in North Canton, OH, El Paso, TX and Juarez, MX. This large and apparently insurmountable risk to lenders severely limits the proliferation of private money, as the interest rate would have to be exhorbitant to compensate for this tremendous risk premium. vending manufacturing plant in Williston, SC. One may borrow a private currency but repay the loan with a legal tender that has subsequently devalued against the private alternative, with the lender being required by law to accept it. dishwashing manufacturing plant in Jackson, TN. Though these private, especially digital, monies has had some modest success, governments have established a coercive monopoly on what currency may be used in lending by enacting legal tender laws.

cooking manufacturing plant in Cleveland, TN. It is important to understand though that, as long as money is above all an agreement to use something as a medium of exchange, it is up to a community (or to whoever holds the power within a community) to decide whether money should be backed by whatever material or should be totally virtual. refrigeration manufacturing plants in Amana, IA and Reynosa, MX. After all, gold, or platinum, or silver, have in some regards less utility than previously (their electrical properties notwithstanding), while currency backed by energy (measured in joules) or by transport (measured in kilogramme*kilometre/hour) or by food [2] is also possible and may be accepted by the people, if legalised. laundry manufacturing plants in Newton, IA, Herrin, IL, Juarez, MX, and Searcy, AR. It is possible for privately issued money to be backed by any other material, although some people argue about perishable materials. Magic Chef. Transactions in these currencies represent an annual turnover value in billions of US dollars.

Jenn-Air. Some of these private currencies are backed by historic forms of money such as gold, as in the case of digital gold currency. Jade (appliances). Today privately issued electronic money is in circulation. Hoover vacuums. In Scotland and Northern Ireland private sector banks are licensed to print their own paper money by the government. Dixie-Narco. Many other nations have similar such policies that eliminate private sector competition.

Amana (appliances). In Australia, the Bank Notes Tax Act of 1910 basically shut down the circulation of private currencies by imposing a prohibitive tax on the practice. Admiral. Although stories about crooked banking practices are entertaining—and for that reason have been repeated endlessly by textbooks—modern economic historians have found that there were in fact very few banks that fit any reasonable definition of wildcat bank." The National Bank Act of 1863 ended the "wildcat bank" period. White's article in [1] "it turns out that “wildcat” banking is largely a myth. On the other hand, according to Lawrence H.

Such organizations earned the nickname of "wildcat banks" for a reputation of unreliability and that they were often situated in far-off, unpopulated locales that were said to be more apt to wildcats than people. If the issuer went bankrupt, closed, left town, or otherwise went out of business the note would be worthless. States, municipalities, private banks, railroad and construction companies, stores, restaurants, churches and individuals printed an estimated 8,000 different monies by 1860. In the United States, the Free Banking Era lasted between 1837 and 1866, during which almost anyone could issue their own paper money.

In many countries, the issue of private paper currencies has been severely restricted by law. The history of money has generally seen commodity money replaced by more formal systems, as money has been progressively brought under the control of governments. Money has developed over the years from conch shells to sophisticated international banking systems. These arguments are covered in financial capital which is a more general and inclusive term for all liquid instruments, whether or not they are a uniformly recognized tender.

There have been many historical arguments regarding the combination of money's functions, some arguing that they need more separation and that a single unit is insufficient to deal with them all. See money supply. Modern economics also faces a difficulty in deciding what exactly 'is' money. This happened in Russia (for instance) during the 1990s.

A monetary crisis can have very significant economic effects, particularly if it leads to monetary failure and the adoption of a much less efficient barter economy. The monetary policy of government aims to manage money, inflation and interest to affect output and employment. The amount of money in an economy affects inflation and interest rates and hence has profound effects. Money is one of the most central topics studied in economics and forms its most cogent link to finance.

When using money substitutes in such a way as to leave a financial record of the transaction, the most common methods are checks, debit cards, credit cards, and electronic money. When using money anonymously, the most common methods are cash (either coin or banknotes), stored-value cards or gold. One key benefit of these features of money is that it facilitates and encourages trade; because barter is inefficient. For these reasons, gold and silver have been chosen again and again throughout history as money in more societies and in more cultures and over longer time periods than any other items; and when embraced as money, those societies inevitibly prosper under what is often called a golden age.

To be a store of value:. To be a unit of account:. To be a medium of exchange:. To function as money, the monetary item should possess a number of features:.

The rest of this article frequently uses the term money in the looser sense of the word. However any detailed study of monetary theory needs to recognize the proper distinction between money and credit. For example bank deposits are generally included in summations of the national broad money supply. In lay terms, and when convenient in academic discussion, credit and money are frequently used interchangeably.

This distinction between money and credit causes much confusion in discussions of monetary theory. Hence to be strictly accurate credit is a money substitute and not money proper. Credit completely fails criterion number two. However credit only satisfies items one and three of the above "Essential Characteristics of Money" criteria.

Credit is often loosely referred to as money. However no good or token is money unless it can satisfy all three criteria. Many goods or tokens have some of the characteristics outlined above. Most non-perishable goods have this quality.

Both would represent a store of value because through trade they can be reliably converted to other goods at some future date. Likewise it might keep a cash box that has some currency that holds market value. For example, a sawmill might maintain an inventory of lumber that has market value. When an object is purchased primarily to store value for future trade then it is being used as a store of value.

It must be a store of value. 3. We would also say that an IOU denominated in goats would change value at much the same rate as real goats. For instance we may say that today a horse is worth 10 goats and a good hut is worth 45 goats.

For example, if in some culture people are inclined to measure the worth of things with reference to goats then we would regard goats as the dominant unit of account in that culture. A debt or an IOU can not serve as a unit of account because its value is specified by comparison to some external reference value, some actual unit of account that may be used for settlement. When the value of a good is frequently used to measure or compare the value of other goods or where its value is used to denominate debts then it is functioning as a unit of account. It must be a unit of account.

2. This characteristic allows money to be a standard of deferred payment, i.e., a tool for the payment of debt. When people are coerced to use or alternatively they trust an object and demand it in order to do their exchanges and trades, then this object is considered to be money. In order for a single object to become or to remain dominant in this function requires either coercion or faith.

The utility of such an object in simplifying the process of trade leads to direct demand for the object. When an object is consistently used as an intermediate object of trade, as opposed to direct barter, then it is regarded as a medium of exchange. It must be a medium of exchange. 1.

Money has all of the following three characteristics:. . At various times in history government issued promisory notes have later become fiat currencies (US dollar) and fiat currencies have gone on to become a form of commodity currency (Swiss Dinar). The widespread acceptance of fiat money is most frequently enhanced by the central authority mandating the money's acceptance under penalty of law and demanding this money in payment of taxes or tribute.

A central authority (government) creates a new money object that has negligible inherent value. Fiat money is a relatively modern invention. Gold-backed currency notes are a common form of commodity money. In modern economies, commodity money has also been used as a unit of account.

It quickly begins functioning as a store of value, since holders of perishable goods can easily convert them into durable money. It is usually adopted to simplify transactions in a barter economy; thus it functions first as a medium of exchange. Under a commodity money system, the object used as money has inherent value. Commodity money was the first form of money to emerge.

Hence these two aspects of money are interdependent. The value of money emerges in no small part from its utility as a medium of exchange, however its utility as a medium of exchange depends on it having recognised market value. In other cases, a central authority creates a single money object and compels its use; this is more frequently the case in modern societies with paper money. Since the needs arise naturally, societies organically create one or several money objects when none exists.

Money is any marketable good or token used by a society as a medium of exchange, store of value and unit of account. Only the interest paid on it remains.). (It is critical that we understand that when a bank makes a loan, that is new money and when a loan is paid off that money is destroyed. Bank credit through the creation of chequable deposits in the granting of various loans to business, government and individuals.

There is also a near-money in the form of interest bearing bonds issued by governments with solid credit ratings. Paper notes, coins with varying amounts of precious metal (usually called legal tender) issued by various governments. (These were common in the 19th century but not seen anymore.). Bank notes - paper issued by banks as an interest-bearing loan.

These reasons are why paper, or electronic credits, are often not desirable as money. It should be difficult to counterfeit, and the genuine must be easily recognizable. It should have a stable value; a value intrinsic in itself, such as a luxury item, scarce, or rare. This is why food items, expensive spices, or even fine silks or oriental rugs, are not generally suitable as money.

It should be long lasting, durable, it must not be perishable or subject to decay. It must be a certain weight, or measure, to be verifiably countable. It should be fungible: that is, one unit or piece must be equivalent to another, which is why diamonds,works of art or real estate are not suitable as money. This is why leather, or animals are not suitable as money.

It should be divisible into small units without destroying its value; precious metals can be coined from bars, or melted down into bars again. Paper notes have proved highly convenient in this regard. This is why oil, copper, or water are not suitable as money. It should be easily transportable; precious metals have a high value to weight ratio.

A low spread typically occurs when an item is fungible. It should be liquid, easily tradable, with a low spread between the prices to buy and sell.